高二英语上学期期中考试试卷及答案

湛江一中培才学校2014-2015学年是第一学期期中测试

高二英语科测试卷

时间：120分满分; 150分

I 语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分）

第一节完形填空（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

Years ago, a farmer owned the land along the Atlantic seacoast. He often

_______for a helper, but most people ______ to work on farms along the Altantic . They feared the ______storms across the Atlantic. As the farmer interviewed applicants ______ the job, he received a steady stream of ________finally, a short, thin and middle-aged man was _____in the job. “are you a good farmhand ? ” the farmer asked him. “well , i can sleep when the wind ______, ” answered the little man.

_________puzzled by this answer, the farmer , in the ______need of a helper, hired him. The little man worked well around the farm, _________from morning till night, and the farmer felt ______with the man?s work.

One night the wind from offshore howled ( ) loudly. Jumping out of _____, the farmer grabbed a lantern and ________to the little man?s room. He shook the little man and sh.

shouted, “_____! A storm is coming ! Tie things down ______ they are blown away ! ”

1. A. employed B. advertised C. interviewed D asked

2. A. used B. denied C. refused D dared

3. A. Terrible B. fantastic C. wonderful D changeable

4. A. to B. on C. for D of

5. A. Arrivals B. applications C.agreements D refusal

6. A. active B.interested C. disappointed D anxious

7. A. comes B. fades C. blows D appears

8. A. Once B. H owever C. Since D although

9. A.rapid B. urgent C. Right D serious

10. A. tired B. lazy C. busy D sleepy

11. A.satisfied B. Amused C. surprised D excited

12 A.chair B. Bed C. desk D floor

13 A. Walked B. came C. rushed D fled

14. A. Get out B. Dress up C.get up D stand up

15. A. When B. before C. after D. until

第二节语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯性的要求，在空格处填上适当的单词或使用括号中单词的正确形式填空。

The big red American car was much too wide for an English country road．When Jack saw __16__coming toward him ．he stopped his own car at the side if the road 17 make room for it to past ．The American car went slowly past ,so close 18 he could see the driver?s face quite clearly．

"Where have I seen that face before ?" he _19____(think)．, “Wait a minute! I remember now ．It was in the newspaper!” He took out the newspaper from his bag, turned _20______(quick) to the middle page ．There was a picture of the face in

it ．Yes, it had _21_____large mouth and small ____22___(ear), and his eyes were behind dark glasses。

" Wanted by the police," read by Jack。" The City Bank will give a lot of money to anyone 23 helps the police to catch this man．"

"Call the police 24 once ," he said to himself ．But a few minutes_25___（late）, he was sad．"This man was caught this morning," answered the police.

II 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A，B, C和D项中，选出最佳选项

A

Frank Woolworth was born in Roman, New York., in 1852. His family were very poor farmers, and there was never enough to eat. Frank decided he did not want to be farmer. He took a short business course, and went to work as a salesman in a large city.

Woolworth realized he had a natural skill for showing goods to attract people?s interest, but he soon learned something more important. One day his boss told him to sell some odds and ends for as much as he could get. Frank put all these things on the table with a sign which said FIVE CENTS EACH. People fought and pushed to buy the things and the table was soon cleared.

Soon afterwards, Woolworth opened his own store., selling goods at five and ten cents. But he had another lesson to learn before he became successful. That is , if you want to make money by selling low-price goods, you have to buy them in large quantities directly from the factories.

Once , for example, Woolworth went to Germany and placed an order for knives. The order was so large that the factory had to running 24 hours a day for a whole year. In this way, the price of the knives was cut down by half.

By 1919, Woolworth had over1000 stores in the us and Canada, and opened his first store in London. He made many millions and his name became famous throughout the world. He always run his business according to strict rules, of which the most important was: “ THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT.”

26.Frank took a short business course in order to ___________.

A.earn more money for his family.

B.learn something from a salesman

C.get away from the farm

D.get enough to eat

27.Frank sold the odds and ends quickly because___________.

A. He knew how to get people to buy his goods.

B. He cut down the price by half.

C. He had put the goods on a table in a very nice way.

D. The sign he put on the table was well designed.

28.The price of the knives was cut down by half because__________.

A. The factory workers worked 24 hours a day.

B. Knives were ordered in large quantities directly from the factory.

C. The knives was made in Germany, and his huge order of knives.

D. The knives were produced in one factory.

29.__________make Woolworth a world-famous man.

A. His business skills and his wealth.

B.the low price of the goods he sold.

C.his trip to Germany and his huge order of knives.

D. His natural skill for showing things.

30.The belief that : …The customer is always right ? suggests that ________

A. Whenever there is a quarrel between the customer and the shop assistant, the customers are always right.

B. If you want to succeed, the rule is the only way.

C. Stores must always follow the customer?s orders if they want to make more money.

D. Stores should do their best to meet the customer?s needs if they want to be successful.

(B)

About ten men in every hundred suffer from color blindness in some way. Women are luckier; only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all , it is safer to be driven by a woman!

There are different forms of color blindness . In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shadows of green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unluckly man may see everything in shades of green -- a strange world indeed.

Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones ” . These help us to see in a bright light and to tell difference between colors. There are also millions of “rod ”, but these are used for seeing when it is near dark. They show us shape but no color.

Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes prefer blue to yellow. A red light will not attract insects, but a blue lamp will. In a similar way human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the aid of the cones in our eyes we can see